If--

If--
By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk to crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!







Just thought of this poem juz now. Inspires me every time i read it. Incidentally RFed and Nadal recited it in a BBC Wimbledon pre-show promo. Not as cool as the whole poem recital in the FIFA vid though though...

Things have been goin quite steady nowadays. But I do find the momentum to study degrade as the week progresses from Monday to Friday. It's like it obeys the conservation of energy, juz that work is done to overcome friction, so energy is lost. It also says a loss in Gravitional Potential E results in a gain in Kinetic E. I'm displacing from Monday to Friday, so I guess something is loss in between.

I juz hope that I dun fumble in the physics exam...
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